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Just four months ago, Noland Arbaugh had a circle of bones removed from his skull and paper-thin sensory tendrils slithered into his brain. A computer the size of a small stack of coins was placed on top and the hole was sealed.Paralyzed below the neck, Mr Arbaugh is the first patient to take part in the human clinical trial testing Elon Musk's Neuralink device, and his early progress has been greeted with enthusiasm.Working with engineers, Mr. Arbaugh, 30, trained computer programs to translate the firing of neurons in his brain into the act of moving a cursor up, down and around. His mastery of the cursor soon became so agile that he could challenge his stepfather to Mario Kart and play an empire-building video game late into the night.But as the weeks passed, about 85 percent of t...

For decades, Iranian leaders have been able to cite high voter turnout in elections as evidence of the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic's political system. But as voter turnout has plummeted in recent years, the elections they will now be forced to hold following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi will force the political establishment into a decision it doesn't want to make.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, has two options, each of which carries risks.It could ensure that the presidential elections, which according to the Constitution must take place within 50 days of Raisi's death, are open to everyone, from extremists to reformists. But that risks leading to competitive elections that could take the country in a direction it doesn't want.Or ...

When David De Clercq traveled to San Francisco last year, he had a few obligatory stops on his itinerary: going to Alcatraz. He tries new restaurants. And he travels in a self-driving car.Self-driving cars, also known as autonomous vehicles or, colloquially, robotaxis, have been plying the streets of San Francisco in some form since 2009 and have been operating commercially since last August. The cars are also shaping up to be the city's latest tourist attraction.Mr. De Clercq, 42, who divides his time between New Jersey and Sardinia, where he owns restaurants and bars and rents villas, is an avid traveler.“I love exploring and doing new things,” she said. “I knew I definitely wanted to hitch a ride while I was in town.”What, where and how to driveConversations abound on Reddit and...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday held funeral prayers for the country's president who died in a helicopter crash, as thousands of Iranians filled the streets of Tehran in an official day of mourning.The president, Ebrahim Raisi, 63, was killed along with Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, 60, and five other travelers who were traveling with them on Sunday. The funeral began Tuesday with a procession in Tabriz, the closest major city to the crash site in northwest Iran. The bodies of Raisi and the others killed were then taken to the holy city of Qom and Tehran, the capital, ahead of Wednesday's events.Iranian security forces have implemented severe restrictions on vehicle movement and parking in the area where the funeral processions ...

Antalya FPV drone çekimi, şehrin eşsiz güzelliklerini farklı bir açıdan keşfetmenin yolunu sunar. Bu yazıda, Antalya'nın muhteşem doğasını keşfetmek için FPV drone çekiminin ne kadar heyecan verici bir seçenek olduğunu öğreneceksiniz. Antalya'da FPV Drone Çekimi ile Yepyeni Bir Deneyim Antalya'nın eşsiz manzaralarını kuşbakışı görmek, FPV drone çekimi ile mümkün hale geliyor. Deneyimli pilotlar eşliğinde, Antalya'nın sahillerini, dağlarını ve antik yapılarını keşfetmek adeta bir macera. FPV drone çekimiyle, doğanın büyüleyici güzelliklerini yakından görebilir ve bu deneyimi ölümsüzleştirebilirsiniz. Box Bilişim ile Profesyonel Destek Antalya FPV drone çekimi için güvenilir bir partner mi arıyorsunuz? Box Bilişim, size profesyonel çözümler sunarak bu deneyimi unutulmaz kılmak iç...

Dr. Paul D. Parkman, whose research was instrumental in identifying the virus that causes rubella and developing a vaccine that prevented an epidemic of the disease in the United States for more than 50 years, died May 7 at his home in Auburn, New York, in the Finger Lakes region. He was 91 years old.The cause was lymphoblastic leukemia, said granddaughter Theresa M. Leonardi.Rubella, also known as German measles because German scientists classified it in the 19th century, is a moderate disease for most patients, identified by a patchy and often itchy red rash. But during pregnancy it can cause the birth of babies with severe physical and mental disabilities and can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths.In the 1950s, when Dr. Parkman was a pediatric medicine resident at the State Unive...

French movie star Gérard Depardieu repeatedly punched Rino Barillari, known as the "king of the paparazzi," on Tuesday at Harry's Bar on Via Veneto, the grand hotel and cafe-lined boulevard that decades ago was a lively hangout for paparazzi hunting celebrities, according to the photographer and a journalist who witnessed the altercation.It may have been a scene straight out of “La Dolce Vita,” the early 1960s Federico Fellini film that introduced the character of an annoying and eccentric photographer who stalked the movie stars who filled the cast of the Cinecittà film studios when Rome it was known as “Hollywood”. on the Tiber".Seeing Mr. Depardieu, 75, and Mr. Barillari, 79, in Via Veneto was like "a time machine," said Gianni Riotta, a columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica, w...

C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer designs for Digital Equipment Corporation fueled the emergence of the minicomputer industry in the 1960s, died Friday at his home in Coronado, Calif., at the age of 89 years.The cause was pneumonia, his family said in a statement.Called the "Frank Lloyd Wright of computers" by Datamation magazine, Bell was the leading architect in the effort to create smaller, more affordable, more interactive computers that could be grouped together in a network. A virtuoso of computer architecture, he built the first time-sharing computer and supported efforts to build Ethernet. He was among a handful of influential engineers whose designs formed the vital bridge between the room-sized models of the mainframe era and the advent of the personal compu...

The AP reported that it adhered to Israeli military censorship rules, including restrictions on broadcasting troop movements that could put soldiers at risk, and that the feed largely showed smoke rising over Gaza. It said officials had not previously flagged the placement of its camera in southern Israel as problematic, but had noted that its images had appeared live on Al Jazeera. It also reported that Israeli authorities had conveyed a verbal order last week to suspend the live broadcast, but the order was not respected.As a major telecommunications service, The AP makes its content available to subscribers around the world.Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's parliamentary opposition, had criticized the Communications Ministry for confiscating AP equipment, calling the move "madness...